Studio Artist Tips

Studio Artist’s paint synthesizer is an amazingly versatile digital painting tool. You can choose to paint manually or just press the action button and let Studio Artist paint your source image automatically. There are thousands of factory paint presets available to help you get started. Paint presets are completely editable, so it’s easy to customize [...]

Studio Artist uses a special folder called the Brush folder as a container for storing individual image or movie files used in Studio Artist paint presets. This tip will discuss how to work with the Brush folder.

The Paint Synthesizer can respond to your mouse or pen movements in different ways.  How the current paint preset responds to pen movement is a function of the paint synthesizer’s adjustable Pen Mode option.  Changing the pen mode is an easy way to modify the drawing behavior and appearance of any paint preset. This tip [...]

The Paint Synthesizer is capable of generating an extremely wide variety of different paint styles.  This tip will focus on explaining how to get under the hood and edit paint presets to change their automatic drawing behavior. Specifically we will discuss how to control where automatic paint strokes are drawn. You can use these techniques [...]

The paint synthesizer has a large number of different editable parameters that control the look and feel of a given paint preset. A common getting started question is how to adjust the opacity of the current paint preset. This post explains how to adjust the opacity of a paint preset using the associated controls in [...]